Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 895 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to preserve and sustain the limu supply by establishing a limu management area for the shoreline in Ewa Beach, Oahu.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species, the Nature Conservancy, and four individuals. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and one individual.

Your Committee finds that limu grown in its natural habitat serves as the foundation for healthy Hawaiian reef systems, and in recent years, the Ewa Beach community has seen its natural supply of limu rapidly diminishing. Thus, this measure will allow a portion of the Ewa Beach coastline to preserve and sustain its limu supply.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 895, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 895, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.